"I think America is just so in love with conflict."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“When I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry. When started working on my stuff, we created something that was phenomenal.”
“In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.”

Source : Frederick Winslow Taylor (2016). “The Principles of Scientific Management”, p.6, Cosimo Classics
“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

Source : "Testimony to the Inquisition". Translation by Charles Yriarte, July 18, 1573.
“It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.”
“Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.”
“I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.”
“Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence.”
“The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”

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